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    Default Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    Hey ladies or gents,

    This may be a crazy question but it is on my mind and maybe some of you can help. I want to go to Vegas and dance, however, I am scared about going to get a business license because I will be finishing my master's program soon and applying for my license to become a clinical social worker. I do not want anyone to find out that I was a dancer in Vegas!!! Just thinking about it makes me freak out.

    Does anyone know if getting a dancer's license will hurt me later on in my career? How much does the information follow you?

    Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    I think you are safer getting a license in Vegas than in other cities around the US because SOOOOOO many jobs in Vegas require a sheriff's card. The license simply says non-gaming, so that could be for anything else in the entertainment/ hospitality businesses (I think). Some cities have licenses specifically for strippers, and that may come back to bite you in the ass later, but a Vegas license should be just fine for your future.

    Have a viable story ready incase you are asked in the future (Like shooter girl at Coyote Ugly, or something).


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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    ^^^so that goes for both the sheriff's card and the business license?

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    yes the business license is indistinguishable from the licenses required by any other independent business operators from hot dog vendors to dog walkers to lawn mowers. The dancer's license doesn't specifically state exotic dancer, but it is more closely linked to bars / clubs etc. But Paris is absolutely correct that Vegas licenses are structured such that they leave much less of a 'smoking gun' public record which could be dredged up by future employers / ex-husbands etc. than cities that specifically require / issue a dancer's / adult business license.

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    In general, employers won't go digging around for old business licenses unless it's relevant to your position. I know in Atlanta, for instance, I was told by the permit issuing office that the permit does not come up in a regular background check. However, the permit IS a matter of public record. So, if someone wanted to check and see whether or not you were a dancer, they could check.

    Of course, being a state worker, you are subject to much, MUCH more stringent background checks. It is possible that this might come up. My advice (and the advice that's been given to me), if you have a license which reveals you were a dancer (not one which doesn't specify anything in particular...cuz then you're pretty golden), just be honest about it. You'd probably get into far more shit if you lied about it.

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    ^^^ agreed that public service jobs, and particularly public service jobs that deal with other people's money, other people's bodies, and other people's children, will require a much deeper level of background scrutiny. However, given that she resides in California, the natural 'laziness' of gov't bureaucracy probably means that out-of-state records will never be checked.

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    You name your business when you get the license. Just give it a generic name and you'll be fine.

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    i heard that having a vegas license equals a higher chance of being audited..?

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    I've never heard about anything about being audited more. If you're really concerned about the business license there are two ways to buffer yourself a bit.

    1. get a P.O. box like at a UPS store or something for a few bucks a month and file the business license under that address. It's just another layer of protection and if you're really paranoid;
    2. File for incorporation in the state of Nevada under LegalZoom or some other service. It will cost you about $100.00 and Nevada provides the best laws in the country for corporate anonymity. You file for incorporation then put the license under the corporate name.

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    hi dancer wealth - but they take your social security number so how would that help...?
    i want to be a teacher in vegas.do u think my dance cards would show up on a background check for teaching? u couldnt name ur own buissness.i thought u could but when i went to get mine they wrote exactly where i was working right on the buissness license. ive only had my licenses for 2 months though.i wonder if it comes up in the background check if they would even tell u why u didnt get the job and give u a chance to explain.u could lie i suppose but they could call the club if they really really wanted to

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    Default Re: Help!!!Can a Vegas business license ruin my career?

    once u ALREAY have the buissness license is there any way to buffer yourself when renewal time comes around? should i get rid of the license and not dance before applying for teaching? do u think that would help?

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    When I got my lisence, they never asked if I was a stipper. I just told them I was an entertainer. That coudl mean a lot of things. Juggler, go go dancer, singer, circus freak..... The business lisence isnt connected with the clubs, yeas, they have a copy, but short of callign every club in nevada and asking if they ever had a dancer under this name..how could anyone find out? Even if they found out you had a business lisence, and wondered what it was for, there is no way of finding out really. Everyone in Vegas needs a sherrifs card, so that wouldnt hurt in a backround search.

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